ZIRVI v. ILLUMINA, INC. et al
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October 08, 2024
Illumina Wants Unresponsive Plaintiff To Pay $200K, Atty Fees
Biotechnology company Illumina Inc. asked a New Jersey federal court Tuesday to order a former graduate student to pay $200,000 in liquidated damages for allegedly failing to respond to attempts to finalize a settlement to his claims that attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP manipulated a patent case to steal his intellectual property.
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April 26, 2024
Latham, Akin Beat NJ Suit Over Alleged IP Theft Scheme
A New Jersey federal court on Friday tossed a lawsuit claiming attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP manipulated patent litigation to steal a former Cornell University graduate student's DNA sequencing intellectual property, calling that graduate student's claims "conspiracy theories."
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October 27, 2023
Biotech Firm Rips 'Time-Worn Cudgel,' Wants Attys Punished
A biotechnology company and an attorney have asked a federal judge in New Jersey to impose sanctions on the counsel for a Garden State dermatologist who has been suing over intellectual property rights to work he did as a graduate student nearly three decades ago.
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April 11, 2023
Latham, Akin Attys Sank DNA Patent Row, Suit Says
A New Jersey dermatologist says that lawyers at Latham & Watkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP deliberately tanked a patent fight between Cornell University and DNA sequencing company Illumina by giving him bad advice during depositions over research he conducted as a graduate student that he says later formed the basis of a DNA cancer-screening product Illumina marketed with medical equipment supplier Thermo Fisher.